'68 Jungle Jim #2

Set against the blood-dripping title logo of this 2013 Image series, Jeff Zornow's cover for '68 Jungle Jim #2 plunges readers straight into Vietnam-era chaos — a snarling tiger and a gas-masked soldier armed with a knife burst through tangled jungle vines while a sea of rotting zombie hands and faces surges hungrily below. The composition crackles with kinetic tension, pairing the raw ferocity of the big cat with the grim determination of a soldier who clearly hasn't run out of fight yet. Mark Kidwell's zombie-war mashup continues to look like one of the more genuinely inventive horror concepts on shelves in 2013.